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For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

~David Foster Wallace

Topics: Addressing Alarm Cause Cultures Deeper Fire Getting Going Like Off Pain Rid Shutting Still While Without Would

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What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

~David Foster Wallace

Topics: Discerning Does Extremely Good Large Large Numbers Numbers People Realize Think Tv Want

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Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.

~David Foster Wallace

Topics: About Being Fiction Human Human Being

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The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

~David Foster Wallace

Topics: About Above Apart Flaws Gets Great Great Thing Irony See Splits Them Thing Things Up

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I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

~David Foster Wallace

Topics: Art Exploring Fiction Human Just Means Think Today

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Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

~David Foster Wallace

Topics: Black Blacks Conscious Hideous Like Oppression Parody Poverty Pride Rap Response Sixties Some

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The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

~David Foster Wallace

Topics: Against Desperate Interesting Interesting Thing Loneliness Thing Why

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This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

~David Foster Wallace

Topics: American Cosmos Either Else God Make Man Something Then Worship Your

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It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

~David Foster Wallace

Topics: Bleeding Good Like Looks Minimalist Much Piece Without Write You

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This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.

~David Foster Wallace

Topics: Alone Become Inside Less

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 21st, 1962

Died: December 12th, 2008

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